Person · 1792 - 1846
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin
| Born | 1792-07-27 Billerica, MA |
| Died | 1846-06-01 Billerica, MA |
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| In Office | 1837 - 1838 |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Spaulding |
| Father | William Baldwin |
| Mother | Susanna Wilson |
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Anne Whiting |
Henry Baldwin (1792 to 1846) was a merchant who kept a house and store on the east side of the Common for nearly thirty years, at first in partnership with his brother Colonel John Baldwin as J. & H. Baldwin, and who represented Billerica in the General Court in 1837 and 1838. He was born in Billerica on July 27, 1792, a son of William Baldwin (1748 to 1802) and Susanna Wilson, and was not yet ten when both his parents died, his mother in April 1801 and his father a year later. On June 20, 1819 "Capt. Henry Baldwin" married Anne Whiting, a daughter of Deacon Samuel Whiting; she and her twin sister Catherine had been born on October 13, 1792.
In March 1818 the two brothers bought from George Bruce, a merchant, three quarters of an acre "with all the buildings thereon" on the great road east of the Common, just south of the tavern lot at the corner of Sheldon's Lane, now Andover Road. This was the house and store at 432 Boston Road, now known as the James Abbott House, and it was Henry Baldwin's home for the rest of his life. For the next eighteen years John and Henry bought, lent on and resold land together all over the town, as "traders," "gentlemen" and, in 1829, "copartners as J. & H. Baldwin." They bought half of the Deacon Joshua Abbot farm north of the meeting house (the Joshua Abbott House) in 1819 and the whole of it in 1829, and sold it to William Rogers Jr. in 1831. They lent money on the Wetherbee place on the Salem road and bought it in 1825; it is now the Samuel G. Tucker House. They took over the Cumings place south of the Common in 1826, bought the store lot opposite the meeting house in 1828 and sold it in 1832 to Dr. Thaddeus Brown, who built his house there (the Luther W. Faulkner House), and in April 1833 bought the Crosby homestead on the Boston road at auction and conveyed it the same day to Dr. Zadok Howe. They also gathered wood lots on Gilson Hill, the Ditson Plain on the road to Boston and the old Nahum Baldwin pasture on the Salem road.
On November 4, 1836 the brothers divided what they held. Henry released to John his half of the Wetherbee place, the Cumings place, the wood lots and their pew, and John released to Henry, for $4,000, his half of the house and store lot and of the Nahum Baldwin pasture. In 1837 Henry was one of the thirteen men who bought shares in the building of the closed Billerica Academy, which they sold to his brother in 1844. On October 1, 1845 he bought from the town and School District No. 1, for $600, the old Town House next door to his store, "heretofore used as a Town House & school house."
He died of consumption on June 1, 1846, aged 53, and was buried in the Old South Cemetery. By his will of May 18, 1846 he left Anne "my house, store, out buildings & land under & adjoining them" and his farm of about forty acres for her life, and then to their three sons, with her brother Augustus Whiting of Charlestown and their son Henry as executors. The inventory valued the homestead at $3,360 and the Town House lot and building at $550. Anne Baldwin died on July 28, 1874. Their children were Henry Augustus (1821 to 1853); Samuel Whiting (born 1824), who in Hazen's words "was the first soldier drafted from town in the war, and responded promptly, doing brave and good service," and who by 1881 held the house and store and left them by his will to the merchant Jasper F. Bruce; Mary Ann Whiting (1825 to 1828); and George F. (1827 to 1850).
References
- Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), Genealogical Register p. 8, BALDWIN 22
- Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), p. 305: representatives to the General Court; Henry Baldwin, 1837-38
- Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, births p. 6: Henry, s. William and Susanna, July 27, 1792; his children pp. 6-7
- Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, marriages p. 219: Henry, Capt., and Anne Whiting, June 20, 1819
- Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, deaths p. 341: Henry, merchant, consumption, June 1, 1846, a. 53 y. 11 m. 5 d.
- Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, births p. 6: Henry, s. William and Susanna, July 27, 1792; his children pp. 6-7
- Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, marriages p. 219: Henry, Capt., and Anne Whiting, June 20, 1819
- Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, deaths p. 341: Henry, merchant, consumption, June 1, 1846, a. 53 y. 11 m. 5 d.
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| Date | Type | Grantor | Grantee | Summary | Property | Recorded |
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| January 29, 1819 | Deed | George Bruce of Billerica, merchant | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin, both of Billerica, gentlemen | Details | James Abbott House T.F. Lyons Post Office Old BATV Building |
225/500 (South) |
Billerica town book 12, pages 83-84. Dated March 11, 1818. For $1,150, "a certain tract of land situate in Billerica aforesaid containing three fourths of an acre be it more or less with all the buildings thereon", beginning at the northwest corner and running by the great road "six rods and twenty links" (112.2 feet, the same frontage as the 1925 plan), then easterly by the grantor's land 18 rods 10 links to a stone wall, then northerly "as the wall now stands" six rods 20 links "to land owned or lately owned by widow Lucy H. Foster" (the tavern lot at the corner of Sheldon's Lane), then westerly 17 rods 16 links to the first corner. No title recital; the lot was cut from the Bowers land Bruce bought in 1810. The 1925 trustee's deed recites this deed as the root of the title.
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| May 15, 1824 | Deed | Blaney Abbot, Elias Maynard (guardian of Joanna Winship), Dorcas Bowers, Elizabeth Abbot and Abigail E. A. Kidder | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Details | Joshua Abbott House William F. Sanborn House |
254/229 (South) |
For $500, "one half of a certain farm situate in said Billerica containing thirty-two acres more or less, with one half the buildings thereon, as divided by commissioners appointed for that purpose, it being the homestead of Deacon Joshua Abbot late of said Billerica, deceased." These are the devisees of Dorcas Abbott (probate 15). Dated May 1, 1819; recorded May 15, 1824. Billerica town book 12, pages 361-363.
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| March 25, 1820 | Mortgage | Elijah T. Weatherbee of Boston, yeoman | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica, gentlemen | Details | Samuel G. Tucker House | 232/392 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 70-71. Mortgage, March 23, 1820, of the same half-acre lot "on the southerly side of Sheldons lane (so called) ... with the buildings thereon standing", same bounds, to secure $328.33 in six months with interest. Recorded March 25, 1820; discharged by John Baldwin Oct. 23, 1822.
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| May 3, 1820 | Deed | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Simeon Jefts of Billerica, yeoman | Details | Joshua Abbott House William F. Sanborn House |
234/17 (South) |
For $600, "one half of a certain farm, with one half of the buildings thereon, as lately divided by Commissioners appointed for that purpose, situate in said Billerica, it being the homestead of Deacon Joshua Abbot late of said Billerica deceased, the whole farm containing about thirty two acres." Dated April 4, 1820, witness Blaney Abbot; recorded May 3, 1820. Jefts gave the Baldwins a $400 mortgage of the same half the same day, payable in four yearly instalments, discharged Jan. 10, 1824. Billerica town book 12, pages 160-163.
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| 1824 | Deed | Jesse Manning | John and Henry Baldwin | Details | 254/231 (South) | |
Dated March 4, 1824 (Middlesex South; known from the recital in the Baldwin partition deed of 1876, Book 120, Page 230). One of the four deeds by which John Baldwin and his brother Henry assembled the woodlot later called "the Gilson Hill Lot".
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| May 15, 1824 | Mortgage | Elijah T. Weatherbee of Boston, trader | John Baldwin Esquire and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, both of Billerica | Details | Samuel G. Tucker House | 254/233 (South) |
Billerica town book 12, pages 368-369. Mortgage, April 13, 1824, to secure $500 on demand, of "a parcel of land situate in said Billerica about fifty rods east of the meeting house on the Salem road, bounded north by said road, east by land of Josiah Bowers, south and west by land of William Richardson, with all the buildings thereon". Recorded May 15, 1824. Discharged by John and Henry Baldwin March 23, 1825, the day of the deed that follows (recorded April 4, 1825).
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| May 15, 1824 | Mortgage | Joseph Parker of Billerica, gentleman, and Lydia Parker | John Baldwin, Esq., and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, of Billerica | Details | Clara E. Sexton House John Richardson Mills House |
254/234 (South) |
Mortgage for $175 on "a piece of land ... containing about three quarters of an acre more or less with the dwelling house thereon," bounded west by the road, south by Capt. John Richardson and east and north by Col. John Parker, "being the same which I this day purchased of Joseph Locke Executor of the last will of Rev. Henry Cumings deceased." Signed April 29, 1824. Billerica town book 12, pages 369-370.
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| 1825 | Warranty Deed | Elijah T. Weatherbee of Boston, trader; Nancy his wife (dower) | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentlemen, of Billerica | Details | Samuel G. Tucker House | 267/412 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 413-414 (the 1975 MACRIS form cites it as "MxzD 13/43"). For $525, "a parcel of land situate in said Billerica about fifty rods east of the Meeting House on Salem road bounded north by said road east by [land] of Capt. Josiah Bowers late of Billerica south by land of George Bruce, west by land of Wm Richardson, with all the buildings thereon". Signed March 23, 1825, witnessed by George H. and Washington Weatherbee, acknowledged at Boston April 1, 1825; recorded 1826 (index). Margin cross-reference to the 1820 mortgage (town book 13, page 70). From here the house was known as the Wetherbee (Weatherbee) Place.
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| May 17, 1826 | Quitclaim | Dr. Zadok Howe of Billerica, physician | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Details | Clara E. Sexton House John Richardson Mills House |
267/415 (South) |
For $25, Howe released "all my right title and interest in & to a certain tract of land ... containing by estimation about one half an acre of land with a dwelling house & out buildings thereon standing," bounded west by the public highway, south by land now occupied by Capt. John Richardson, east by Col. John Parker and north by a passage way from Parker's tan yard to the road, "formerly owned by Doct. Henry Cummings deceased." Signed March 10, 1826 before Marshall Preston. With their mortgages this left the Baldwins owners of the Cumings place, which John Baldwin sold in 1840. Billerica town book 13, pages 418-419.
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| 1826 | Deed | Ebenezer Pemberton of Boston, gentleman | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica, gentlemen | Details | Pemberton Academy | 277/445 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, page 519. For $300, "a certain tract of land ... containing six acres," beginning at the northeasterly corner at "the great road leading to Boston," west by Jeremiah Farmer to Concord River, by the river to land lately of Zacheus Shed, east by Shed to the road and north by the road, "with all my part of the buildings." This is the 1800 Foster lot, sold after Pemberton moved to Boston; it does not include the academy quarter acre, and it is Pemberton's last recorded Billerica deed.
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| November 22, 1827 | Deed | William Bruce of Bangor, Maine, merchant, Charles Bruce, merchant, Hannah Upton, widow, Abigail Bruce and Martha B. Wait, heirs of George Bruce | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, both of Billerica | Details | Gerrit H. Bennink House | 277/446 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, pages 520-521. Dated June 6, 1827. For $718, three tracts: eight acres of wood land, 37 acres on the south side of Fox Hill, and "one other tract of land consisting of pasture and woodland ... containing forty acres more or less one undivided moiety thereof it being the same conveyed by Thomas and Martha Shed to George Bruce by deed dated December 15th 1823 and also by deed of Rizpah Baldwin" in 1826, reserving to Joseph Locke a right of way across it.
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| May 17, 1828 | Quitclaim | Phillip Bowers of Billerica, cordwainer, and Mary Bowers his wife | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Details | Joshua Abbott House William F. Sanborn House |
280/540 (South) |
For $100, all their right "in and to a certain tract and parcel of land situate in said Billerica with the buildings thereon standing it being the same which was devised and given to the said Mary by her late husband Joshua Kidder." Mary, the widow of Joshua Kidder, had married Phillip Bowers. Recorded May 1828. Billerica town book 14, pages 77-78.
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| May 17, 1828 | Quitclaim | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Simeon Jefts of Billerica, gentleman | Details | Joshua Abbott House William F. Sanborn House |
280/541 (South) |
For $350, "a certain tract of land situated in said Billerica containing about twenty acres more or less bounded southerly by land of Joshua Bennett westerly by Concord river northerly by land of said Jefts and easterly by the highway. Also a part or half of the dwelling house where the said Jefts now lives meaning hereby to release and convey all that real estate both of land and buildings which Joshua Kidder by his last will and testament gave and devised to his wife Mary and which was lately owned by the said Mary and her present husband Phillip Bowers." Dated May 14, recorded May 17, 1828. With this deed Jefts owned the whole farm and house. Billerica town book 14, pages 80-81.
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| May 17, 1828 | Mortgage | Simeon Jefts of Billerica, gentleman, and Lucretia his wife | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin, in trust for Mary Bowers | Details | Joshua Abbott House | 280/542 (South) |
For $350, "a certain tract of land & half a dwelling house situate in said Billerica it being the same this day conveyed to me by the said John and Henry by their quitclaim deed," to the Baldwins "In Trust for use and benefit of Mary Bowers wife of Phillip Bowers," void on payment within ninety days. Dated May 14, recorded May 17, 1828. Mary Bowers (by her mark) authorized Blaney Abbot to receive payment, and he gave a discharge for $399.40 on Sept. 22, 1830, recorded Dec. 23, 1830. Billerica town book 14, pages 81-82.
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| November 11, 1828 | Warranty Deed | Abraham R. Thompson of Charlestown, physician (Elizabeth Thompson releasing dower) | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentlemen, of Billerica | Details | Pinehurst School Old Ditson School |
284/362 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 106-107. Dated April 25, 1828, recorded Nov. 11, 1828. For $103.69, "a certain piece of Land lying in Billerica bounded as follows Easterly on the County road to Boston Southerly on land of Isaac Beard Westerly on land of Benjamin Bowers Northerly by land of Farmers heirs containing nine acres three quarters and twenty perches and known by the name of the Ditson place, being the same land conveyed to me by Samuel Bowers by Deed dated August 25th 1825 ... Book 261 Page 524."
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| January 21, 1829 | Mortgage | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Asa Richardson of Boston | Details | Luther W. Faulkner House | 287/299 (South) |
Dated Nov. 1, 1828 (Billerica town book 14, pages 132-133). Mortgage for $825 of the same third of an acre "nearly opposite the meeting house", W on the great highway from Chelmsford to Boston, N on Marshall Preston, E on Capt. Nathan Shattuck, S "by the Highway called Sheldons Lane", "with the Store and all the other buildings". Discharged July 16, 1832.
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| November 24, 1829 | Warranty Deed | Asa Richardson of Boston, gentleman (wife Elizabeth releasing dower) | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, of Billerica | Details | Luther W. Faulkner House Frederick A. Morey Block |
293/219 (South) |
Dated Nov. 1, 1828, ack. Boston Nov. 25, 1828 (Billerica town book 14, pages 236-237). For $1,100, "one third of an acre of land more or less situate in said Billerica nearly opposite the Meeting house bounded west on the great Highway leading from Chelmsford to Boston north on land of Marshall Preston as the fence now stands east on land of Capt. Nathan Shattuck south by the Highway called Sheldons lane with the store and all the other buildings thereon standing". No title recital: Asa held under his 1817 mortgage from his brother William, who died insolvent in 1826.
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| November 25, 1829 | Quitclaim | Simeon Jefts of Billerica, gentleman | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin, copartners as J. & H. Baldwin | Details | Joshua Abbott House William F. Sanborn House |
293/240 (South) |
For $500, "my homestead farm situate in said Billerica where I now live containing thirty two acres more or less with the buildings thereon," bounded east by the great road, north by Mrs. Frances Caldwell, west by the Concord River and south by Joshua Bennett, with about 20 acres of wood and pasture in Acton. Dated Sept. 19, 1829, witness Marshall Preston; recorded Nov. 25, 1829. Billerica town book 14, pages 242-243.
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| October 6, 1831 | Mortgage | William Rogers Jr. of Billerica, trader, and Mary H. Rogers his wife | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Details | Joshua Abbott House | 309/87 (South) |
For $1,300, "a certain farm situated in said Billerica called the 'Deacon Joshua Abbot farm' containing thirty two acres more or less with the buildings thereon," bounded by the great road, Mrs. Frances Caldwell, the Concord River and Joshua Bennett, payable in quarters over four years with four notes of $325: the purchase-money mortgage for the Baldwins' sale to Rogers. Dated March 21, recorded Oct. 6, 1831; discharged on payment by Rogers's guardian Timothy Cotting in 1834. Billerica town book 11, pages 554-555.
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| 1831 | Mortgage | Isaac Brown of Billerica, gentleman | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Details | Isaac Brown House | 310/391 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, pages 597-598. For $96.40, the four-acre "Winning lot" on the Rangeway road (SW by "land of the heirs of Thomas Brown deceased", NE by the heirs of Nathaniel Brown), three acres between the Rangeway and "a road leading from said Isaac's to Thomas Spaulding's", and "all my right share and interest in the homestead place on which I live", void on payment in six months. Recorded March 1832.
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| April 16, 1834 | Warranty Deed | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin of Billerica, with Clarissa and Anne their wives | William Rogers Jr. of Billerica, trader | Details | Joshua Abbott House William F. Sanborn House |
331/392 (South) |
For $1,300, "a certain farm situated in said Billerica called the Deacon Joshua Abbot place containing thirty two acres more or less with the buildings thereon," bounded east by the great road, north by Mrs. Frances Caldwell, west by the Concord River and south by Joshua Bennett. Dated March 21, 1831; recorded April 16, 1834. Rogers gave the Baldwins a mortgage the same year (town book 11, page 554). Billerica town book 13, pages 546-547.
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| May 15, 1832 | Deed | Mary Bird of Billerica, widow | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin, both of Billerica, traders | Details | Gerrit H. Bennink House | 313/459 (South) |
Billerica town book 16, pages 105-106. Dated April 16, 1832, before Marshall Preston. For $125, "one undivided fourth part of a certain tract of pasture and wood land situate in said Billerica, called the Nahum Baldwin land, containing thirty eight acres more or less", from "a pair of bars on the East side of the Salem road" by Andrew Bowers, Fitch Tufts, the heirs of Col. John Parker, Joseph Locke, William Tyler, Capt. Josiah Bowers, the poor house lot and Josiah Crosby back to the road, with a fourth of two acres across the road, "being a part of the same Nahum Baldwin land".
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| November 13, 1832 | Warranty Deed | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, of Billerica (wives Clarissa and Anne releasing dower) | Dr. Thaddeus Brown of Billerica, physician | Details | Luther W. Faulkner House Frederick A. Morey Block |
318/302 (South) |
Dated Oct. 4, 1832 (Billerica town book 16, pages 169-170). For $1,166, "a parcel of land near the meeting house in said Billerica containing one third of an acre more or less bounded westerly by the highway leading from Boston to Lowell, northerly by land of Marshall Preston, east by land of Nathan Shattuck and southerly by the road leading from said meeting house to Salem with all the buildings thereon". Brown married Susannah Crosby a month later and built his house here.
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| April 22, 1833 | Guardian's Deed | Dr. Zadok Howe of Billerica, guardian of Josiah Crosby, minor | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, both of Billerica | Details | Fiske Tavern Stand Little Red Schoolhouse |
322/316 (South) |
Dated April 9, acknowledged April 18, recorded April 22, 1833. Under the license of the Supreme Judicial Court (October term, 1832), after public auction on April 2 and 9, 1833, for $2,557.15 to the highest bidders, "the homestead place of Josiah Crosby Esquire late of Billerica deceased," 21 acres 23 rods "with the buildings thereon," bounded easterly on the highway from Billerica to Boston, southerly and westerly by Michael Crosby Jr. and northerly by land formerly of Benjamin Bowers; also the schoolhouse lot of 8 acres 38 rods, half the Fox Hill (Rowland) lot, the Frost pasture of 26 acres 38 rods and a pew. Billerica town book 16, pages 233-235 (Southern Registry Book 322 Page 316). The same day the Baldwins deeded the homestead and schoolhouse lot to Howe himself (Southern Registry Book 325 Page 559), a straw sale that let the guardian buy.
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| October 25, 1833 | Warranty | John Baldwin Esq. and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, both of Billerica, with Clarissa and Anne their wives | Zadok Howe of Billerica, Esq. | Details | Fiske Tavern Stand Little Red Schoolhouse |
325/559 (South) |
For $2,219.79, "a tract of land situate in said Billerica containing twenty one acres and twenty three rods with the buildings thereon standing it being the homestead place of the late Josiah Crosby Esquire," also eight acres 38 rods "called the school house lot," "as both said tracts or parcels are described in the said Howe's deed to us of even date herewith." Dated April 9, acknowledged April 18 before Marshall Preston, recorded Oct. 25, 1833. Billerica town book 16, pages 288-289 (Southern Registry Book 325 Page 559). The Baldwins had bought the homestead the same day at the auction held by Zadok Howe as guardian of the minor Josiah Crosby (Southern Registry Book 322 Page 316); this deed passed it to Howe himself.
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| November 11, 1835 | Warranty Deed | Jonathan Gates of Lowell, yeoman | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin, both of Billerica, traders | Details | Gerrit H. Bennink House | 347/256 (South) |
Billerica town book 15, pages 176-177. Dated June 16, 1834. For $150, "the one undivided fourth part of the following described parcel of land known by the name of the Nahum Baldwin pasture ... containing thirty acres more or less", from the northwest corner at the Salem road by Gates and Fitch Tufts, the heirs of Col. John Parker, Benjamin Beard Jr., William Tyler, the Kidder pasture, John Baldwin, the "Poor House lot", the widow Stephen Richardson and the road. Gates had the quarter from the heirs of Andrew Bowers earlier that year. With it the Baldwin brothers owned the whole pasture.
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| November 11, 1835 | Mortgage | Joshua Abbot of Billerica, yeoman, and Fanny Abbot his wife | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica | Details | Joshua Abbott House | 347/257 (South) |
For $1,000, "my homestead farm situated in said Billerica formerly known by the name of the Deacon Joshua Abbot Place containing thirty two acres," bounded by the great road, Mrs. Frances Caldwell, the Concord River and Joshua Bennett. Dated Nov. 19, 1834, recorded Nov. 11, 1835; discharged by the Baldwins on Oct. 10, 1836 on receipt of $1,116.61. Billerica town book 15, pages 178-179.
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| April 22, 1843 | Warranty Deed | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica, traders (Clarissa and Anne Baldwin releasing dower) | Harvey Crosby of Billerica | Details | Pinehurst School Old Ditson School |
427/124 (South) |
Billerica town book 17, page 464. Dated April 17, 1834, recorded April 22, 1843. "A certain piece of land situate in said Billerica containing nine acres three quarters and twenty perches more or less and known by the name of the Ditson Plain and bounded as follows viz. easterly on the County road leading from said Billerica to Boston southerly on land of Francis Carter westerly on land formerly of Benjamin Bowers and northerly on land formerly of the Farmer Heirs being the same conveyed to us by Abraham R. Thompson dated April 25 1828 ... Book 284 Page 362."
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| November 29, 1836 | Quitclaim (Partition) | Henry Baldwin of Billerica, gentleman; Anne his wife (dower) | His brother Col. John Baldwin of Billerica, Esquire | Details | Samuel G. Tucker House | 357/400 (South) |
Billerica town book 15, pages 299-302. For $5,000, Henry Baldwin releases to his brother "the one undivided half of the following several parcels and lots of land", the property the two had bought together since 1824, among them "a certain place called the Weatherbee Place bounded northerly by the Salem Road westerly by land of Lyman Haynes southerly by land of Fitch Tufts easterly by land of Ichabod G. Kimball", with wood lots, pastures, the Cummings Place south of the Common, a 36-acre lot on Fox Hill and a pew in the meetinghouse. Signed Nov. 4, 1836, witnessed by Marshall Preston and Henry A. Baldwin, acknowledged Nov. 28; recorded Nov. 29, 1836. In the companion deed (town book 15, page 303) John released to Henry his half of a 3/4-acre lot with buildings on the east side of the Common and the Nahum Baldwin Pasture. From 1836 Col. John Baldwin owned the Wetherbee Place alone.
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| November 29, 1836 | Quitclaim | John Baldwin of Billerica, Esquire (Clarissa Baldwin releasing dower) | Henry Baldwin of Billerica, gentleman | Details | James Abbott House T.F. Lyons Post Office Gerrit H. Bennink House 41 Andover Rd Old BATV Building |
357/403 (South) |
Billerica town book 15, pages 303-304. Dated Nov. 4, 1836. For $4,000, John Baldwin releases "one undivided half of a certain lot of land situate in said Billerica on the easterly side of the common containing three fourths of an acre more or less with all the buildings thereon": by the great road six rods twenty links, easterly "by land of Fitch Tufts" 18 rods 10 links to a stone wall, northerly six rods 20 links "to land of Lyman Haynes" (the tavern stand), westerly by Haynes 17 rods 16 links; also half of the 39-acre Nahum Baldwin Pasture. The preceding instrument (town book 15, pages 301-302) is Henry's reciprocal release to John of other lands the brothers held together. From 1836 Henry Baldwin owned the lot alone.
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| 1837 | Quitclaim | Marshall Preston of Billerica, Esquire (Maria Preston releasing dower) | Zadock Howe, John Baldwin, Thaddeus Brown, James R. Faulkner, Henry Baldwin, John Eames and seven others of Billerica | Details | Billerica Academy Billerica Masonic Temple |
373/450 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 438-440. Signed October 14, 1837, acknowledged November 4. For $445.99 paid by Zadock Howe, John Baldwin, Thaddeus Brown, James R. Faulkner, Henry Baldwin, John Eames, Ichabod Everett, Francis Richardson, George Holden, Seneca Fisk, George Bacon, George P. Elliot and Jonas Merriam Jr., "thirteen undivided fourteenth parts of a certain piece or parcel of land situate in said Billerica on the south side of the meeting house, with the buildings thereon standing, known as the Billerica Academy," 60 feet on the common, 6 rods 16 links back along land late of Col. John Parker, 5 rods 10 links "to the southwest corner of the horse shed appurtenant to said meeting house," reserving to John and Henry Baldwin the cellar for the term of their contract. Preston recites that the trustees had mortgaged it to him for a debt due Parker's estate and that he had "taken possession thereof & the right in equity to redeem the same having been foreclosed is the source of my title." The academy had closed in 1836; the building passed to a group of townsmen as shareholders. Recorded July 1838.
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| December 8, 1838 | Quitclaim | The Rev. Nathaniel Whitman of Wilton, Hillsborough County, N.H., clerk (Sarah Whitman releasing) | John Baldwin, Esq., and Henry Baldwin, gentleman, both of Billerica | Details | George H. Whitman House | 379/125 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 567-568. For $100, quitclaim of "a certain farm situate in said Billerica containing thirteen acres more or less with all the buildings thereon standing": from the corner of the wall by land of Francis Richardson, westerly to Concord River, northerly by the river eleven rods to land late of Capt. Stephen Parker deceased, easterly by the Parker land "and land of the heirs of Col. John Parker deceased" about 209 rods "to the road leading from Billerica to Bedford," southerly by the road eleven rods; "the same being subject to a Mortgage given by me to Blaney Abbot Esqr. Treasurer of said town ... to secure the payment of Fourteen hundred Dollars dated May 3d 1816." Dated April 9, 1838, acknowledged at Hillsborough April 19, 1838.
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| 1838 | Quitclaim | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica, gentlemen (Clarissa and Anne Baldwin releasing dower) | George Bacon of Woburn, yeoman | Details | George H. Whitman House | 379/126 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 568-569. For $100, quitclaim of "a certain farm situate in said Billerica containing thirteen acres more or less with all the buildings thereon standing," the same bounds (Francis Richardson, Concord River, late Capt. Stephen Parker and the heirs of Col. John Parker, about 209 rods "to the Road leading from Billerica to Bedford"), "subject to a Mortgage given by Revd Nathaniel Whitman to Blaney Abbot Esqr. Treasurer of said Town ... $1400 dated May 3d 1816." Covenant against their own encumbrances only. Dated November 13, 1838 (witnesses Marshall Preston, Charles Goodwin); recorded in December 1838 with the Whitman quitclaim. MACRIS dates this purchase 1836, the year the town entered for possession.
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| November 3, 1842 | Mortgage | George Howe of Billerica, yeoman, and Betsey Howe | John Baldwin and Henry Baldwin of Billerica, gentlemen | Details | John Shed House 329 Boston Rd |
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Dated Apr. 12, 1842, acknowledged Nov. 1, recorded Nov. 3, 1842. $1,000 on demand, secured on "a certain messuage or tenement of land ... containing thirty acres more or less with the buildings thereon standing," bounded east by the great road from Billerica meeting house to the Corner, north by Deacon Spaulding, west by Concord River and south by Dudley Foster, "being a part of the farm formerly owned by the late Zacchius Shed deceased." Assigned to Zadock Howe, who discharged it Jan. 16, 1850. Billerica town book 17, pages 395-397.
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| 1844 | Quitclaim | Zadock Howe, James R. Faulkner, Henry Baldwin, Marshall Preston and nine other owners of the Billerica Academy | John Baldwin of Billerica, Esquire | Details | Billerica Academy Billerica Masonic Temple |
443/390 (South) |
Billerica town book 16, pages 513-514. Signed May 2, 1844. For $730, Zadock Howe, James R. Faulkner, Henry Baldwin, John Eames, Ichabod Everett, Francis Richardson, George Bacon, George P. Elliot, Jonas Merriam Jr. and Marshall Preston of Billerica, George Holden of West Cambridge, Susan Brown of Andover, widow, and Sereno Fisk of Southport, Wisconsin Territory, quitclaim "Thirteen undivided fourteenth parts of a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica on the southerly side of the first parish meeting house with the buildings thereon standing known as the Billerica Academy," bounded by the Common at the Meeting House Lot, west 6 rods 16 links and north 5 rods 2 links by Ann Parker, "to the Southwest corner of the Horse sheds appurtenant to said Meeting house." With the share he bought in 1837, John Baldwin now owned the whole building and lot.
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| 1845 | Warranty Deed | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica and the Inhabitants of School District No. 1 in Billerica | Henry Baldwin of Billerica, trader | Details | Town House Centre Schoolhouse (Pages Court) |
480/52 (South) |
Billerica town book 18, pages 130-131. Dated Oct. 1, 1845. For $600, "a certain tract of land situated in said town nearly opposite the First Parish Meeting house with the building thereon heretofore used as a Town House & school house", beginning at the southwest corner on the public highway, east by land of Baldwin 42 feet to land of Lyman Haynes, north and west by Haynes, south on the highway 40 feet. "Being the same premises conveyed to said Town of Billerica by James Abbot by his deed dated the 24th day of April A.D. 1798" (that deed was never recorded). Signed for the town by Daniel Wilson, Francis Richardson and Zadock Howe under a vote of the town meeting of March 17, 1845, and for the district by John Baldwin, John Eames and Joseph F. Hill.
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| June 30, 1846 | Will | Estate of Henry Baldwin of Billerica, trader | His widow Anne Baldwin for life, then his sons Henry A., Samuel W. and George F. Baldwin | Details | James Abbott House T.F. Lyons Post Office Town House Gerrit H. Bennink House 41 Andover Rd Old BATV Building |
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Will dated May 18, 1846, proved June 30, 1846: "I give bequeath & devise to my wife Anne Baldwin my house, store, out buildings & land under & adjoining them, also all my farm, being about forty acres ... during her natural life, & at her decease, to my three children, to be equally divided between them." Executors Augustus Whiting of Charlestown and Henry A. Baldwin, who might sell "the Old Town house (so called)" and the Lowell lots. The inventory (appraisers Dudley Foster, Lyman Haynes, Gardner Parker) lists "The Homestead of said deceased situate in said Billerica" at $3,360 and the "Town house lot and building" at $550. George F., a minor, chose his mother as guardian (probate 26757).
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted; Probate # is a Middlesex probate case, Ctf a Land Court certificate of title.